[rikdpola]

"I couldn't imagone them not together." And there's the problem. You...and most other people...put your emotions and morals onto your pets.

Dogs don't work like we do...at all.

Say two humans grew up together and were best friends well into adult hood. Say one day they get into an argument over something...a human would generaly go no further than raised voices in such a confrontation...and after a period of avoidance due to hard feelings, they patch it right back up again.

Now...if these two good friends were to escalate into a fist fight...and were to continue to fight until one had killed the other...we would consider this an act of inhumanity...no sane person would react that way...especialy not to a lifelong friend.

Dogs aren't people. They do not have any morals...no sense of "right" and "wrong". They are governed first by instinct and second by training. A small doggy disagreement COULD escalate very easily into a kill-or-be-killed fight...especially in breeds whose instincts have been altered by selective breeding to heighten the fight and/or prey drive.

If you are not there to stop a potential fight from occuring...well...who's going to stop it from escalating?

---------- Post added at 06:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:33 PM ----------

That's not to say you can't have multi dog homes where dogs get along...it's simply advising that one never allow themselves to think that their dogs can be trusted 100% alone together.

They have nothing...except your presence...to stop them from starting a fight, and nothing to stop them from continuing until someone is dead.

Humans are stopped from comitting such acts by either moral values, or knowledge of the consequences. Dogs have niether of these guiding points.